Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

London's old-school healing garden.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.